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all the latest developments. paul, let's go to you. >> urine in tel aviv, were there also is some sort of demonstration or protests happening? >> explain yeah, fred. >> so this is the weekly protests that we have been seeing in recent weeks and months sub partly with the families of the hostages that are still being held, calling for their release and also in great part, calling for the government to collapse calling from benjamin netanyahu to step down. now there have been some family members of those still being held in gaza who've made some speeches tonight and it is interesting because the overall theme has been obviously very welcoming that there are four hostages that have been rescued earlier this summer today. but overwhelmingly that there needs to be a ceasefire deal in order to be able to release the final 120 who are still being held in gaza. there was the cousin of one hostage who is deceased, that there remains are being held by hamas militants saying not everybody is getting a hollywood ending, pointing out that this worked for these four hostages. but they're definitely now needs to be a concerted stephen to get a ceasefire deal or hostage deal. so that the rest of the hostages can be released. fred and then paul, are you hearing anything more about how this rescue operation unfolded? >> so what we're hearing from the military at this point, it was a joint mission between the military, the security agency, the police. it was weeks in the making and it was just thursday night where the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu agreed and gave the green light so we know that it happened in new serotonin. that's central gaza. it was what is being described as a high risk complex mission to buildings in gaza we're targeted is it by the israeli military? and they went in and managed to retrieve the four hostages. we do know that there was devastation left in the wake of this rescue mission, though, we're hearing from the media office in gaza, the more than 210 were killed, more than 400 were injured a cnn producer on the ground saw a constant stream of dead and wounded coming into the al-aqsa martyrs hospital, men, women, and children. in fact, one man said, this is held on earth. so there has been a very heavy price to pay. we don't have clarity at this point of the breakdown of milk let's deaths compared to civilians. good sydney, there are questions being asked. we did here though, from one mother of one of the hostages being released let's listen to what she said yes. >> still android and 20 of suggests in gaza this will be want a deal. now, we want them to come back home. as soon as possible so it's interesting that's at the same time as she was thanking the military for what they had done and was welcoming back her son. >> she was also saying the way to get the other hostages back is not through these kinds of emissions. it is through hostage deal, a ceasefire deal all right paula hancocks, thank you. michelle alvarez is in washington and persil, i understand you're learning more about the us support in this rescue mission that's right, frehse, the american cell that we have been talking about over the course of the afternoon that aided israel in this effort? isn't referenced to a team that has been on has been assisting israel since october 7 in information gathering of hostages. that's what i'm told by a us official. they worked closely with israel as they were executing on this rescue mission. we are also told by a source that there were no us boots on the ground in this mission now, over the course the de, we have heard the the us tout this operation, casting it as successful, even hearing from the president himself, who was alongside the french president earlier today, when he applauded this mission. >> i want to echo president macron's comments welcoming to safe rescue four hostages were returned to their families you won't stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached that is essential to happen now, you heard the president, they're referenced that agreement that has been worked on by all the parties involved. >> this includes the exchange of hostages and also for a ceasefire agreement. now, the us has been pushing for this. the president himself coming out publicly in laying out the proposal phase by phase quite rare move a few weeks ago. and now the u.s. is still trying to see that through to the finish line, the middle east, the situation happening there was expected to come up tween the two liters over the course of the president's visit in france. we also know that some senior us officials did go back to the middle east to try to give momentum to some of these hostage talks. again, because the us is true, wants to see the release of all hostages in exchange for end of fighting in gaza as to where there'll be those talks are unclear, but they are calling the operation today successful. >> all right. >> priscilla alvarez and paula hancocks. >> thanks to both of you all right. let's talk more about all this joining me right now is former nato supreme allied commander general wesley clark. general. good to see us so are you surprised on how the u.s. what we're learning now from our according, how the us assisted in this operation in terms of information, providing information know we've been trying to help from the beginning periphery garden, we've been using our intelligence collection assets liaison team shot in israel trying to feed this information in and trying to end this terrible situation. >> it's so tragic when you look at it and they asked of the parents the mother of the rescued hostage, and the pressure on israel, but got to remember this is all part of the hamas plan they wanted this, they launched the attack. they started the war. they cynically are using their civilian populace as hostages themselves and hoping that israel will cause even more collateral damage and more injured palace and killed palestinians because they consider the only way they can win against israel is the pressure of world opinion against israel i wonder if you can allow, help elaborate on this kind of simultaneous approach while there have been ongoing hostage release negotiations ceasefire negotiation, talks at the same time, at least looking at the results from this raid, there are ongoing strategies about how to extract hostages when israel has the intelligence to learn of where they might be, help people understand while you may hope for diplomacy to work in these negotiations, there are still the operation and in this case, we're told it was a joint operation involving military security agencies and police of hatching a plan, how to extract, rescue people? >> yes, the intelligence leads them that way. >> while you're listening to all sources of information, you're hoping to monitor cell phones. you've got overhead imagery. you probably have some informants who are still there. you have your troops on the ground. you're trying to locate the hostages, and then you have to make the assessment of whether you can extract them. and if show how to do that and get them out alive. and show you this as we heard, has been watched and plan for several days. they've looked at them, they're watching them move, no doubt. and they're figuring, okay, how do we do this? where do we put the fires on? what happens when we go in with hamas do? how do we prevent hamas from them killing? the hostages or moving them while they operations underway. and show all of these calculations are part of the planning process. and then ultimately the top political leaders have to make the >> in this case, is to keep secret the means by which they located and plan to this operation. and so if they disclose the kinds of information that might be exculpatory in this case. it might also give away their sources of information how they do their planning and make it impossible to really rescue other hostages remember, this is an ongoing problem. the real problem here is hamas doesn't want us to render the hostages unless they can karen get guaranteed a permanent cease fire and israel will take a temporary ceasefire. but doesn't want to accept a permanent c-star and let hamas survive this and claim a victory so that's it. and i'm sure there are elements in a mosque was a let's get it over with, just as there are elements inside the coalition government in israel who say, let's get it over with. but this is a war and it's going to go on, i think until one side wins and that's going to be israel despite the cost general wesley clark. >> thank you so much thank you. >> frederick high right now. president biden is at a state dinner with french president emmanuel macron. what biden toasted to next and back-to-back shark attacks florida beaches on high alert after three people were attacked by sharks and less than two hours, what officials are saying about the incidents? the most anticipated moment of this election 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paris for us, and melissa, this has been quite the whirlwind visit for president biden filled with lots of a pump and of course, lots of promise as well. and a lot of diplomacy set the scene for us an awful lot of history as well. fredricka that has been at the center of so much of what we heard from both presence these last few days, shared histories of the united states and france. and for president biden, what we just heard at the start of what is a pretty glitzy affair going on at the laissez palace was a toast as saying that this had been the most remarkable trip he'd ever made to france when you consider what the presidential couple of unable to do these last few days from the events in normandy with the veterans through the algebra enough and down these shows it is today and to the state dinner of course you can understand a better and what we heard during the toasts was really another pledge from both president's about there. as you say, promise for the future is standing firm with one another. essentially that the world is a safer place. when france, the united states, have been allies in the past and that this continues on with protecting europe for pian, western security in the shape of the fight that's going on in ukraine also very central to message as we've heard over the course of the last week. and again tonight at that state dinner. >> and as we were speaking about a moment ago, this has not always been smooth relationship. >> fredricka, there were times back in 2021 when at the fraught relationship between emmanuel, my cool, and president biden had seem to sidetrack really what had been a long and hormone this alliance. and yet so much progress has been made. there was a state dinner at the white house in 2022 that emmanuel macron had been two and now his turn to reciprocate and a state dinner really about ending on a very nice note there, the lizzie palace. tonight's certainly with all the, all the glitz that goes with it. a state, a state visit that has meant a lot politically, i think given their domestic audiences and challenges to both presidents, fredricka, indeed. >> all right. melissa bell in paris. thanks so much. >> and as president biden takes the world stage, this week, he is making a renewed case for democracy as he honors the members of the greatest generation who helped and world war ii. >> in this election year, he is also reaching out to our allies and issuing stark warnings about the perils of isolationism and the rise in laura terrorism around the globe. i'm joined now by mark fabra. he is the author of several books on us history, and he's the editor of a people's history of world war ii. the world's most destructive conflict as told by the people who lived through it, mark great to see you again. >> thanks, your fredricka. nice to see you. >> so that the common theme of protecting democracy and facing tyranny with a collective resolve has been prominent during this five day trip involving the other present former president reagan's message of working against isolationism. that was 40 years ago now, president biden's message is, every generation must defend liberty. does the messaging sound more urgent? however, today 80 years after the fact i, think it does. absolutely. i mean, a famous historian. i know once said, you know, history isn't just what happened in the past. it's this conversation with the present. and i think there's a reason this year and it's not just partisanship, it's not just the election year that history is kind of flowing back to us. power or flee, and that we're having this conversation with the past and 2024 there's something about the commemoration these past few days about the impact of biden's speeches taking place just as the living memory of the normandy veterans are passing from the earth and the urgent need reappearing to know like why were they fighting? no. what were they about? why? why did this conflict take place in the first place and i think particularly, particularly the re-emergence in the united states have something that some people call fascism which is of course, what the allies organized together to defeat in 1944 and 1945. the idea that history has come full circle to a very troubling place. i think makes this very different kind of moment than 40 years ago mark, i asked you this question on my show on cnn, max, last first day, and you were so eloquent that i've got to ask it again to another audience here on cnn news newsroom weekends. i mean, these american veterans who are now 100 100-years-old, some of them older, they were just 19, some even 16-years-old when they embarked on d1 dead. >> my dad was drafted, right out of high school, becoming a tuskegee airmen in world war ii. so why is it that so many of these men now, you know, 100-years-old and plus are able to reflect that? yes. they were scared, but they were completely aware of what this war and mission was all about, and that it was necessary i think it's because there was no doubt by 1944, who the enemy was, an enemy was totalitarianism. >> it was adolf hitler was the enemies of democracy and it's difficult to underscore today or even to comprehend today with all the divisiveness in american politics, a time when despite the fact of there being many, many divisions in american society and in some ways, even deeper divisions in there are today. >> the coming together of so many tens of millions of people and particularly of so many millions of soldiers. >> and draftees and sailors and other people. i mean, i think one thing that biden noted noted in one of his speeches that was so important, he noted the tuskegee airmen. he noted the women who worked in the factories and as nurses and world war ii, i think the sense of unity is very important to recall because it was real, it was tangible among the people who fought and it speaks to what we're about today as we contemplate this same historical arc of democracy and the challenges to democracy again, ver